"Hoombas ... a human Roomba. It's that thing of when you put a midget on a skateboard and it slides around on your floor eating garbage."

TRUE DAT. My mother lost her mind when she saw me post an article about the negative effects that physical punishment has on children and my subsequent comment that only monsters hit children and that I have never and would never do that to my son. That I can discipline him (and I am not a very lenient parent) without…

Thank you for your words. With so much public focus on things like "the cycle of violence", it's incredibly important for people to be reminded that the majority of kids who grow up in abusive households turn out to be kind, compassionate, loving human beings.

Man.

Somebody is going to be in trouble when his dad gets out of jail . . . .

Man, you know, when you grow up with an abusive parent, having the empathy and humanity that this guy shows is the biggest fuck you to a parent's destructive bullshit. I had a very abusive father and I'm not comparing (though you know, this does definitely trigger thoughts about my life), but there is nothing more…

HAAAHAHAHA +1 to abrahamlincolnjonhunter.

Ugh, did you see the remarkably cringe-inducing Fox News interview with Reza Aslan, the entirety of which was the interviewer trying to subtly accuse him of... something... because he's a Muslim and he wrote a book about Jesus and whyyy would he do that. Aslan spent most of the interview explaining, in patient…

There's a difference between high-pitched and babyishly affected. The affected sexy baby sound is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me, and I'm always surprised and saddened when my guy friends find it sexy - partly because I have to listen to their girlfriends sound like kindergartners.

I didn't realize all PoC were a monolith. You're teaching us white folk some very helpful lessons here. I'll go tell my actual Hindu, Indian friends that they should be terribly offended that Selena Gomez wore a bindi as a fashion accessory (something they almost never do themselves because they're so Americanized)…

There were lots of non-black rappers to choose from, too! It was very easy to refute your point. I see you're having a meltdown now. I'm sorry.

But there are always going to be people that object to something, and those who don't. I get fucking pissed at the faux Italians smacking their lips in god damn pasta commercials but I don't think those are going to go away because of it. I'm sure some Italians love them! So what does it mean? Nothing.

And the only people borrowing from cultures are white people who steal ideas and then pass them off as their own.

Really into the square plates, guys.

Yes fuck the women who are able to access my culture without criticism while I am told that I'm not assimilating enough into Western society.

I am not necessarily asserting that Roma do not care. I am happy to have that argument and concede.

There are millions of women all over the world, Hindu women, non-Hindu Indian women, other non-Hindu brown women (like you describe yourself), Indian women living in India, Indian women living in Palo Alto, who believe that the bindi is a fashion accessory. There is clearly some room for disagreement here. Religious…

Oh for fuck's sakes. Are you guys just desperate to find stuff to be offended about?

I don't think she did it because it was funny. I think she did it because she thought the clothes, accessories, and music of the culture was beautiful.

I (still) love Lucy, too, so much. It's definitely important to recognize the shittiness of the racism, which, as a child, I did not understand or question.

Congrats? You aren't a gypsy as far as I have read, so it's another example of someone who is NOT that race/ethnicity/life circumstances/etc. getting pissed on behalf of the group who may or may not give a shit. It's appropriating outrage (and baiting page views, let's be realistic here).